MSRC-CVE-2022-24525 — Windows Update Stack Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Summary

Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition.

Security updates
10.0.18363.2158 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5011485
10.0.19043.1586 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5011487
10.0.22000.556 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5011493

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.0

CVE-2022-24525

Windows Update Stack Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Windows Update Stack Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows 10 Version 21H2 Windows 11 version 21H2 Windows 10 Version 20H2 Windows

Mar 9, 2022

Revision history

2022-03-08 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2022-24525 Windows Update Stack Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-24525
Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss